Awards

CAREER: 3DForests: Using Terrestrial Laser Scanning to Explore Forest Structure Changes Following Disturbance

Lisa Bentley

This project will connect physiological and novel remote sensing tools to better understand the effects of wildfire and fuels management on forested ecosystems in California...

Jun 2022 to May 2027

BioSoundSCape: Connecting Acoustics and Remote Sensing to Study Habitat-Animal Diversity Across Environmental Gradients

Matthew Clark

Mapping and monitoring the structure, function, and biodiversity of Earth's ecosystems is one of the most important research objectives for space science this decade, in...

Jun 2022 to May 2025

Record the Jones Bar Gold Mine Camp, South Yuba River State Park, Nevada County, California

Mark Selverston

The Anthropological Studies Center (ASC) will research, survey, and record the Jones Bar mining site for the Sierra District of State Parks. The site burned...

Jun 2022 to Dec 2023

2022 Community Grants Program – Arts & Culture

Jacob Yarrow

The Green Music Center (GMC) will use funds to present the 10th anniversary season of performing arts programming. Especially during these challenging times, the Green...

Jun 2022 to May 2023

Magnetic Mapping in the Springerville Volcanic Field, East-Central Arizona

Marissa Mnich

This project aims to have student led mapping products of eruptive basalts in two areas of the Springerville Volcanic Field (SVF), the Blue Ridge Mountain...

May 2022 to May 2023

NFWF SF Bay Restoration Grant - Kelp Restoration

Brent Hughes

To date, very little is known as to how coastal processes from land can influence kelp forest dynamics in northern California, presenting a large knowledge...

May 2022 to Mar 2024

Field calibration of GEDI LiDAR pulses for accurate biomass estimation of Sequoia

Matthew Clark

Accurate estimates of forest carbon stock underpin the development of a global carbon market, yet estimates can vary in accuracy and utility. The proposed research...

May 2022 to Dec 2023

Socioeconomic Status, Racial Discrimination, and the Well-being of Low-Income, Latinx Families

Teresa Nguyen

Dr. Teresa Nguyen will use her Visionary Grant Award from the American Psychological Foundation to test a proposed culturally-sensitive model of marriage and relationship development....

Apr 2022 to Jan 2024

Presenter Award – Clear Creek Creative’s Ezell: Ballad of a Land Man

Jacob Yarrow

The Green Music Center received an award for funding to support a theater piece, Ezell: Ballad of a Land Man. It is an environmental, cultural...

Apr 2022 to Jun 2023

Timely prediction of wildfire burn severity in California forests With spaceborne observations of 3D vegetation structure

Matthew Clark

This project's overarching objective is to demonstrate the value of NASA's Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) spaceborne lidar for systematic and timely wildfire severity prediction,...

Apr 2022 to Mar 2025

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